Olio

I'm Leanna Byrne.

Today we're meeting Tessa Clarke, the entrepreneur behind Olio, the app helping millions of people share food and household items instead of throwing them away.

What started with six sweet potatoes, a cabbage and a few pots of yogurt has grown into a global movement tackling waste and overconsumption.

Tessa Clarke, welcome to Founders.

Was there any entrepreneurs in your family? Was there anybody who taught you about money?

Up until very recently, I have thought that, no, I didn't have any entrepreneurs in my family and I didn't have any sort of business role models.

But now I reflect back on sort of what I've done through Building Olio.

I realized that actually farming is the ultimate entrepreneurial career.

Now, details of free food available in and around Cambridge.

The information about what's available and where to get it comes from the Olio app, which exists so that people's or businesses' surplus food doesn't go to waste.

Yeah, and there's a couple of people who have flooded Olio this morning with food.

Anina on Rustack Road has five packs of basil, two tiger bloomer loaves, two long white baguettes and six tiger baguettes, all to give away.

And the other one is Davina.

Never had orange Turkish Delight either.

Sounds yummy.

And there's always plenty of other people putting fresh items on Olio too, more than we have time to mention here.

We're going to add two tablespoons, uh, heaped of crème fraîche, an extra teaspoon of the dried coriander or cilantro, and then if you want to, some naan breads to serve with it.

I mean, isn't that the wonderful thing? I actually got some free, uh, naan flatbreads last night, uh, through the Olio app, and I'm going to defrost myself a portion of this and then have it on one of these flatbreads, 'cause I think that'd be lovely.

So I think that's going to be my lunch today.

So load all the ingredients into the slow cooker from the part one ingredients list.

And thank you for tuning into this episode of The Wild Drop.

Remember, you can listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, on YouTube, our website, www.youngliving.com, and check out the podcast on the Olio app too.

Don't forget to oil up Young Living family.

This is Jacob Young, dropping out.

Any more than that and he'll give you the slip.

So that's all in our brief look at free food available via the Olio app today.

And another free app called Too Good To Go has unsold food from restaurants, cafes and shops, often at less than half price.

Instead of specifying what each item is going to be, the surplus food is simply put into a magic bag and that's ready for you to take home and it saves it being binned at the end of the day's trading.

Now let's talk about these egg noodles.

I've become a volunteer for something in the UK that they call Olio.

Olio is basically a free food app.

Yeah, you literally get free food on it.

So what it is, is it's a food waste preventer.